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HALTER.

No. 528,760. Patented NOV. 6, 1894.

NITED STATES:

"PATENT OF ICE.

HENRY CASEY, OF WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTlCUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TOFRANK H. STRONG, OF SAME PLACE.

HALTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 528,760, dated November6, 1894.

Application filed June 9, 1 8 94- To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY CASEY, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of West Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inHalters, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description,whereby any one skilled in the art can make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to provide a halter or a device which maybe attached to and used in connection with a halter of ordi nary make bymeans of which a horse may be cured of the vice of pulling when hitchedby a halter and prevented from breaking any halter which may be used tohitch the animal.

To this end 'my invention consists in the details of the several partsmaking up the halter and its attachment, and in the combination of suchparts as more particularly hereinafter described and pointed out in theclaims.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a detail view showing the halterin position for use. Fig. 2 is a detail view in rear elevation of theattachment and illustrating the position of the pull strap. Fig. 3 is adetail top view on enlarged scale showing the lever attachment.

In the accompanying drawings the letter (1 denotes a halter which ismade of any convenient material and includes a crown piece 15, checkstraps c, athroat strap (1 and nose band e, the several parts beingunited as by means of the ringsfif. To this halter a lever 9 ispivotally attached the rear end of the lever being provided with a ringor loop g to which a rope h or other convenient equivalent fasteningmeans is secured.

The lever is preferably pivoted to a base piece 1' made of metal andprovided with transverse sockets it near each end and through which thethroat strap and nose band respectively are passed, the base piece beingsuspended from these parts of the halter. The lever g is pivoted to thisbase piece and its forward end is forked to provide curved arms whichunderlie the jaw of the horse. The lever is pivotally supported on thebase piece in the form of the device shown and at such point in thelength of the lever as to cause Serial No. 513,985. (No model.)

the front end to hang outof contact with the under jaw of the horse, thestraps Z or like flexible connecting means on each arm of the jaw forkbeing provided with means for at tachment to the rings at opposite sidesof the nose-band.

A pull strap m is secured to the rear end of the lever and extendsupward over the head of the horse back of the ears passing head upwardit will be deprived of strengthto pull hard enough to break even a smallhalter, but if the pulling back upon the halter is also accompanied byother uncomfortable results the horse will be cured of the vice. Thislever attachment to a halter operates to thrust the jaw upward as soonas the horse begins to pull back on the hitching rope and at thesametime through themedium of the pull strap causes a painful pressureto be brought upon the top of the head, the result being that the horseinstantly stops pulling. The attachment, however, in no wise injures orincommodes the horse unless a breaking strain is thrown upon thehitching rope by the horse pulling backward as it is constructed of amaterial and of a form to add but little to the weight of the halter asa whole, and is also so arranged as not to exert any pull upon the strapor thrust against the lower jaw except when the horse pulls unduly uponthe hitching rope.

A thorough test of this halter attachment has proved that horses are notonly prevented from breaking even a comparatively'weak halter rope whenit is used, but have been cured of the vice of pulling back upon thehalter in such manner as to break it.

I claim as my invention' 1. In combination with a halter, an attachmentincluding a lever pivotally supported on the halter, said lever havingits front end adapted to underlie the lower jaw of the horse, and a pullstrap extending from the rear end of the lever back of the pivot andadapted to overlie the head of the horse in position to exert a downwardpressure upon the top of the head, all substantially as described.

2. In combination with ahalter, a base piece secured thereto, a leverpivoted to the base piece with its front end adapted to underlie the jawof the horse but normally held out of contact therewith, a pull strapsecured to the lever back of the pivot and adapted to extend over thetop of the head of the horse, and a loop on the rear end of the leverfor the attachment of a hitching rope, all substantially as described.

3. In combination with a halter, a base piece having sockets for thereception of the throat strap and nose band respectively, the crownpiece of the halter having a socket for the passage of a pull strap, alever pivoted to the base piece with the front end forked and adapted tounderlie the jaw of the horse, the rear end of the lever back of thepivot having a ring or loop, a pull strap secured to the rear end of thelever and arranged to extend over the head of the horse through thesocket in the crown piece, and the flexible connections between thefront end of the lever and the rings on the nose band of the bridle, allsubstantially as described.

- 4. In combination with a halter, alever pivotally attached thereto andadapted to underlie thelower jaw of a horse and held normally out ofcontact therewith, and a hitching rope attached to the lever at a pointback of its pivotal support, all substantially as described.

5. In combination with a halter, a lever pivotally supported thereon, apull strap secured to the lever back of its pivot and arranged to extendover the top of the head of a horse, and a halter secured to the leverwhereby the pull strap is adapted to exert pressure upon the head of ahorse, all substantially as described.

- HENRY CASEY. Witnesses:

CHAS. L. BURDETT, F. 11. STRONG.

